Shea Stuart

Are you participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Writing about the 18th century? Share your work with us! We’d like to feature 18th-century-themed original fiction for the month of November. Submit a synopsis of your work and a 750-1000 word excerpt to lstuart@gardner-webb.edu. Your novel could be featured in a special NaNoWriMo post.

Our pick for August is The Dreamer Vol. 1 by Lora Innes. Bea Whaley dreams at night of the Revolutionary War and of a soldier who is a member of Knowlton’s Rangers. Is she dreaming? Is she really traveling in time in her dreams? Find out! Join the discussion at Goodreads. Your reviews and comments…

Have you read or are you reading His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik? (Of course you are. Because British naval officers and the Napoleonic Wars and DRAGONS.) Contribute to our summer reading group! Go to our Goodreads group page and post your thoughts on the discussion board. At the end of the month, your comments…

Want to read some fun novels set in the 18th century this summer? Join ABOPublic’s summer book club, Behn’s Badass Bibliotheque! Each month, the editors of ABOPublic will discuss a novel and you can read along, respond to discussion prompts, and perhaps even be featured in a follow-up post. Our novel for June is His…

The 18th century is cool again thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda. His hit Broadway show, Hamilton: An American Musical, based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton, is a pop culture juggernaut, telling the story of the first Treasury Secretary through hip-hop and rap performed by a cast of actors who are nearly all people of…

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Are you participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Writing about the 18th century? Share your work with us! We’d like to feature 18th-century-themed original fiction for the month of November. Submit a synopsis of your work and a 750-1000 word excerpt to lstuart@gardner-webb.edu. Your novel could be featured in a special NaNoWriMo post.

Editor’s Notes

When I first volunteered to work with our parent journal, ABO (which was then stillAphra Behn Online), I had a smattering of web design experience and the belief that the academy was ready to stretch beyond the paperbound paradigm that defined the best scholarship. I was lucky enough to work with two talented and passionate…